 | John Aikin - Great Britain - 1820 - 538 pages
...for taking into consideration the petitions, for reform, Mr. Dunning moved his famous resolution, " That the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." In the debate which it produced, the Lord Advocate of Scotland, by way of defeating... | |
 | Robert Huish - Great Britain - 1821 - 746 pages
...colonel Barre's motion for a committee of accounts, sir George Saville's motion, and others, he moved, " That the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." The objections of ministry to this were, that it was an abstract proposition, not supported by facts, and... | |
 | Earl John Russell Russell - Constitutional history - 1821 - 344 pages
...world that has not been introduced this way. ALGERNON SIDNEY. THE celebrated resolution of 1 780, " That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished," may seem to carry its own refutation along with it. A House of Commons that can vote... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 380 pages
...been vexed by all the turbulence of this reign, and by that absurd vote of the House of Commons, ' That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished? ' " JOHNSON. " Sir, I have never slept an hour less, nor eat an ounce less meat. I would... | |
 | 1854 - 718 pages
...Commons. The first decided symptom of this change was the result of the famous motion of Dunning — ' That the influence of the Crown has increased, is ' increasing, and ought to be diminished' — which, after a hot debate, was carried, on the 6th of April, 1780, by 233 to 215... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1822 - 506 pages
...been vexed by all the turbulence of this reign, and by that absurd vote of the House of Commons, ' That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished ?' " JOHNSON. " Sir, I have never slept an hour less, nor eat an ounce less meat. I would... | |
 | James Robins - Great Britain - 1824 - 490 pages
...a full answer to the petitioners. His first motion was, that it should be resolved by this House, " that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." This motion was warmly supported by the speaker of the House, who declared, that on... | |
 | The Westminster Review.Volume II.July-October,1824 - 1824 - 582 pages
...favour of parliamentary reform, proceed upon the belief of Mr. Dunning's or Mr. Burke's famous motion, that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished. Whether that position was true when the motion was made and carried, might with great... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 526 pages
...tending but remotely to despotism. If there be a time, in which the senate of a free country has declared that the influence of the crown " has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished;" and if, instead of a consequent diminution, there be an evident increase of that influence;... | |
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That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"? 
